The old, dusty map lay spread out on the table, a tangible link to his passion for history and exploration. His son, ten-year-old Sam, was tracing the routes of ancient explorers with a pencil, his eyes alight with excitement.

He found himself standing beside Sam, staring at the map. The room was quiet. A sense of wonder bloomed in his chest. He could not stop staring at his son's dedication.

"Dad," Sam asked, his voice hushed, "do you think we can find the lost city?" He could only smile and place a hand on his son's shoulder. “Maybe,” he replied, “maybe we can.”

Emotion: awestruck

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion
PC1 (Valence): -0.17 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -1.20

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion awestruck. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 awestruck stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the awestruck emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the awestruck vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
L0.271
suddenly0.260
stranger0.252
plötzlich0.246
wonder0.242
Suppressed:
la-0.450
-0.350
K-0.319
rest-0.248
싶은-0.238